Sep 28, 2022

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.

A state in Australia plans to outfit prisons with face recognition. Corrective Services NSW, the government agency that operates nearly every prison in New South Wales, contracted the U.S.-based IT firm Unisys to replace a previous system.

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.

The Batch - AI News & Insights. In this letter, I’d like to address the serious matter of newcomers to AI sometimes experiencing imposter syndrome, where someone — regardless of their success in the field — wonders if they’re a fraud and really belong in the AI community.

In this letter, I’d like to address the serious matter of newcomers to AI sometimes experiencing imposter syndrome, where someone — regardless of their success in the field — wonders if they’re a fraud and really belong in the AI community.